Saturday, February 16, 2008

City Hall and the Fire Station, 1956

The sun is low in the West, and the shadows are stretching further and further across Main Street in this 1956 photo. Back in those days, sunset meant that a lot of people headed home. Crazy, but true. The Surrey is in the foreground, and there's City Hall. Please don't try to fight it! In the distance, the Fire Station...


...upon closer examination, there appears to be a figure of Smokey the Bear, and a mysterious dalmatian (um, "Sparky the Spastic Firedog"?) wearing a suit and a fire helmet. This is just weird! But oddly familiar, I wonder if one of my fellow bloggers had a picture of the same thing at some time? There are also (I think) a few firefighters keeping watch over things, or goofing off!

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3 comments:

  1. Matterhorn19596:04 AM

    Nice eyes there to spot that little detail.

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  2. Merlinsguy7:30 AM

    I vaguely recall that they used to keep a real Dalmatian dog around the firehouse in the early days.

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  3. outsidetheberm5:38 PM

    What a strange dog-thing that is! Don't know what to make of that.

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